Stripe will acquire OpenRouter for $7.5B(startupfortune.com)
51 points by novaRom | 7 comments
Startup Fortune article reporting Stripe agreed to acquire AI model routing startup OpenRouter for about $7.5 billion, outbidding Databricks.
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Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI(ft.com)
162 points by arkj | 101 comments
Financial Times report that Nvidia is in talks to acquire Reflection AI, a US start-up building open AI models; the article is behind a subscription paywall.
Cloudflare acquires Deno(deno.com)
1349 points by ilreb | 702 comments
Deno blog post announcing that Deno is joining Cloudflare.
Red Hat being phased out of existence?(techrights.org)
158 points by amcclure | 84 comments
A Techrights blog post by Roy Schestowitz claiming IBM is phasing out the Red Hat brand, as happened with other companies IBM acquired.
Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are Bidding(worldofreel.com)
48 points by crossroadsguy | 23 comments
World of Reel blog post reporting that Letterboxd is for sale, with A24, Sony and the New York Times among the bidders.
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX(openai.com)
743 points by meetpateltech | 449 comments
OpenAI company post announcing it notified SpaceX it intends to wind down its relationship with Cursor following SpaceX's acquisition of Cursor.
Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B(businessinsider.com)
1918 points by mfiguiere | 888 comments
Business Insider exclusive reporting that Nvidia has been in talks to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for more than $13 billion.
OpenRouter is joining Stripe(openrouter.ai)
925 points by rvz | 473 comments
OpenRouter blog announcement that the LLM API routing company is joining Stripe through an acquisition.
Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+(techcrunch.com)
396 points by zacharyozer | 244 comments
A news report that Stripe will reportedly acquire AI model gateway startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion; the captured page shows a Bloomberg bot-check captcha.
Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources(reuters.com)
470 points by rvz | 277 comments
Reuters report that Stripe and private equity firm Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal, according to sources; the page showed a device verification screen.
Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics(startupfortune.com)
896 points by ck2 | 380 comments
Startup Fortune article reporting Hyundai is buying SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, taking full ownership.
SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B(reuters.com)
1082 points by itsmarcelg | 1581 comments
Reuters article reporting SpaceX's deal to acquire Anysphere, maker of the Cursor AI code editor, for $60 billion; the page loaded as a bot-verification captcha.
Fox to buy Roku(wsj.com)
348 points by thm | 412 comments
Wall Street Journal article reporting that Fox plans to acquire streaming company Roku; the page shown is a bot-verification captcha.
Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B(salesforce.com)
320 points by colesantiago | 234 comments
Salesforce press release announcing a definitive agreement to acquire Fin, formerly known as Intercom.
Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier(politico.eu)
530 points by vrganj | 209 comments
Politico Europe news article reporting that the Netherlands blocked a US company's takeover of a vital Dutch digital supplier.
Anthropic acquires Stainless(anthropic.com)
518 points by tomeraberbach | 362 comments
Anthropic announcement dated May 18, 2026 that it has acquired Stainless, the API SDK generation company.
China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus(cnbc.com)
365 points by yakkomajuri | 260 comments
CNBC news article reporting that China's state planner has blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus, asking both companies to withdraw the deal.
SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B(twitter.com)
760 points by dmarcos | 903 comments
SpaceX post announcing a partnership with Cursor on coding AI, including an option to acquire Cursor for $60B or pay $10B for the collaboration.
Backpacks got worse on purpose(worseonpurpose.com)
321 points by 113 | 295 comments
Blog post arguing backpack quality declined after VF Corporation, originally a lingerie maker, acquired brands like JanSport and other backpack makers.
Meta acquires Moltbook(axios.com)
522 points by mmayberry | 356 comments
Axios exclusive reporting that Meta has hired the two founders behind Moltbook, a social network for AI agents.
Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B(reuters.com)
375 points by personjerry | 307 comments
Reuters news article reporting Capital One's agreement to acquire fintech firm Brex for $5.15 billion.
Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
325 points by Daemon404 | 276 comments
A Tell HN post reporting that Bending Spoons laid off nearly all Vimeo staff after acquiring it, leaving fewer than 15 engineers, with comment discussion.
Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash(cnbc.com)
613 points by nickrubin | 349 comments
CNBC exclusive reporting that Nvidia is acquiring AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion, its largest acquisition on record.
Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons(molecularist.com)
325 points by felineflock | 104 comments
Blog post on Molecularist asking whether Qualcomm's acquisition and Arduino's updated terms and conditions have ended Arduino as an open commons.
Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company(cnbc.com)
475 points by kevinyew | 458 comments
News coverage of Atlassian's deal to acquire The Browser Company, maker of the Arc and Dia web browsers.
When we get Komooted(bikepacking.com)
403 points by atakan_gurkan | 218 comments
A Bikepacking.com opinion piece reflecting on the route-planning app Komoot and what happens to riders and communities when such platforms change hands.
Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf(cognition.ai)
486 points by alazsengul | 406 comments
Cognition blog post announcing its agreement to acquire Windsurf, the AI coding IDE company.
OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google(theverge.com)
979 points by rcchen | 628 comments
The Verge reports OpenAI's planned acquisition of AI coding startup Windsurf fell through, with Windsurf's CEO and key researchers joining Google.
I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it(philmckinney.substack.com)
623 points by AndrewDucker | 480 comments
Former HP CTO Phil McKinney recounts persuading HP's board to buy Palm for $1.2B and its shutdown 49 days later, with a framework for avoiding such decision errors.
Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab(nytimes.com)
424 points by RyanShook | 433 comments
New York Times article reporting Meta's $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI to launch a superintelligence research lab.
OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive(bloomberg.com)
769 points by minimaxir | 1048 comments
Bloomberg article reporting OpenAI will acquire Jony Ive's AI device startup in a roughly $6.5 billion all-stock deal to push into hardware.
OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B(bloomberg.com)
640 points by swyx | 548 comments
Bloomberg news article reporting that OpenAI has agreed to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf for about $3 billion.
Google to buy Wiz for $32B(reuters.com)
574 points by uncertainrhymes | 768 comments
Reuters article on Google agreeing to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for $32 billion; the capture shows a captcha verification page.
Databases in 2024: A Year in Review(cs.cmu.edu)
545 points by avinassh | 175 comments
Andy Pavlo's annual blog retrospective on the database industry in 2024, covering acquisitions, license changes, and other notable events.
The end of Airplane.dev(yolken.net)
415 points by bhyolken | 127 comments
A former employee's blog post explaining, from his perspective, how internal tooling startup Airplane was acquired by Airtable and its product shut down.
Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)(fundablestartups.com)
337 points by BIackSwan | 268 comments
A Fundable Startups blog post on how founders can sell a company for half a billion dollars and receive nothing, due to deal terms like liquidation preferences.
What I learned getting acquired by Google(shreyans.org)
947 points by shreyans | 578 comments
Personal essay by Shreyans about his 10-person startup Socratic being acquired by Google and lessons learned rebuilding the product inside Google.
Insider trade on Splunk acquisition for 45,650% return(twitter.com)
332 points by mkmk | 233 comments
A tweet by unusual_whales describing short-dated Splunk call options bought a day before Cisco's $28B acquisition announcement, yielding a 45,650% return.
Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV(japantimes.co.jp)
505 points by sohkamyung | 198 comments
News brief reporting that Nippon Television is acquiring Studio Ghibli, which will become a subsidiary of the broadcaster.
Amazon acquires Fig(fig.io)
339 points by fatfox | 164 comments
Fig blog announcement by Brendan Falk that the Fig team is joining AWS and Amazon has acquired Fig's technology.
Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
817 points by baron816 | 462 comments
A Tell HN discussion thread reporting that nearly all of Evernote's remaining staff were laid off after Bending Spoons took over operations and raised prices.
Goodreads was the future of book reviews, then Amazon bought it(washingtonpost.com)
530 points by pseudolus | 403 comments
Washington Post tech article on how Goodreads, once seen as the future of book reviews, has fared since being acquired by Amazon.
Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace(bloomberg.com)
401 points by brycewray | 171 comments
Bloomberg news article reporting that Alphabet is selling its Google Domains business assets to Squarespace.
Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla(fakespot.com)
453 points by mattweinberg | 338 comments
Fakespot company blog post from May 2, 2023 announcing that the fake-review detection company has been acquired by Mozilla.